Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.
THOMAS MANNHas the world ever been changed by anything save the thought and its magic vehicle the Word?
More Thomas Mann Quotes
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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
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What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
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He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.
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He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented.
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What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.
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Speech is civilization itself.
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What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
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Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
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We don’t love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
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People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
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For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.
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I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I’ve had.
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Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!
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